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Learn why the network matters in your cloud evolution.

Quickly and easily tap computing, storage, software, development and network
resources on demand with cloud services. With available pay as you go service
models for some services, overall IT spend and service-commitment terms can be
reduced. Our cloud environment is continually scaled and capacity is managed
behind the scenes to help make sure that you have the resources you need.

Better manage business growth, seasonal spikes or unexpected surges of
business activity with our suite of enterprise grade cloud services:

What are cloud services?

Network-enabled cloud: The Next Phase of Cloud Evolution.

Cloud technology allows your business to easily and quickly gain access to
computing, storage, software, development and network resources when you need
them. Basically, IT resources become available on-demand. The cloud model helps
offload capital expenses from your enterprise budget and moves it to a
“pay-per-use” model, likely reducing:

Capital investments

IT spend

Lengthy turnaround times

Service-contract terms

The cloud model

With a cloud solution, the cloud service provider assumes the equipment and
software risk. You would not be responsible for upfront purchases of equipment
and software. The cloud provider makes the investment in the entire resource
pool of equipment and software, and upgrades the resources ahead of your
business needs.

What is inside the cloud?

Many types of managed and unmanaged services may be offered from the cloud,
including: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and
Software as a Service (SaaS).

With IaaS, server, storage and local network resources can be made
available to your business and billed based on how much each resource is
consumed over a certain period of time.

More targeted toward developers, PaaS provides tools, operating system
platforms and storage necessary to create new web applications. This allows
programmers to use new Web services application programming interfaces (APIs)
and protocols residing in the cloud to develop a new application quickly.

SaaS is a cloud service where software applications become available as a
network-based service – users would access them across a wide area network
(WAN). It is a cost effective way for businesses to procure the rights to use
software on an as-needed basis.

Align IT expenses with growth

Cloud services relieve the stress of paying for assets while betting on
business growth to offset costs. They take the guesswork out of capacity
planning to avoid expensive over provisioning and risky under provisioning.
Capital equipment assets come off the balance sheet, and become a monthly
expense. With pay-as-you-use AT&T cloud services, IT expenses align with
your business needs.

The AT&T Cloud is Different.

Supporting your dynamic business

Enterprise cloud solutions give you more control over your IT costs by
charging based upon usage. This model allows you to try or test applications
without upfront equipment costs. Depending on the solution you choose, the
cloud service may expand up or down to meet the needs of your changing
business. There is no longer a need to “over provision” equipment to prepare
for peak usage. You can simplify your business by putting hosting,
applications, data, computing and software resources in the cloud.

Be prepared for unplanned events

Cloud services can be an important part of your business continuity
strategy. Hardware and software resources become one big virtual pool that you
can use. Should a piece of hardware or software become unavailable, users would
continue to be able to reach your applications by being redirected to other
available equipment in the pool.

Providing highly secure access to your cloud solution

Obtaining network access service as part of your cloud service package is a
key reason why you may want to rely on a large network service provider as
your cloud services partner. If you choose to do so, some network service
providers can help manage cloud resources and network access collectively as
part of one package.

- With an MPLS VPN, your enterprise traffic travels the MPLS virtual network
“cloud,” which is managed by your network service provider. End-to end
management also helps to maintain service availability, performance and other
metrics to allow for more comprehensive SLAs.

- Using encryption tunneling, an Internet-based VPN separates your traffic from
other Internet users. In this scenario, traffic resources are shared with
everyone else using the Internet and multiple carriers may be involved in the
solution. The risk of a breach at one or more intersection points may be higher
than with an MPLS VPN. This may be a good option to support traveling or remote
workers.

Cellular networks may also provide highly-secure connectivity to a
cloud.

How is AT&T is different from other cloud providers?

AT&T delivers its cloud services over our highly reliable, intelligent
network with global reach to a broad range of devices.

As an enterprise-class service provider, we can offer businesses:

Significant cost savings in capital and human resources

Better SLAs for reliability, performance and security

Network access services (public & private) as part of the cloud
package

Multi-layered security features embedded right into our network

The strength, reliability and reach consumer services can’t offer

Benefit from self-service provisioning

Procurement and deployment take time and tie up internal staff. With
AT&T cloud services, you can take advantage of the self-service
provisioning feature available via the AT&T cloud services portal, which
allows you to:

Provision once and dynamically scale up or down

Launch new services, applications and projects rapidly

Expand access, capacity and performance on demand

Monitor consumption via a web-based portal

Why AT&T for enterprise cloud?

Cloud services are network based, and thus depend upon the performance,
reliability and security of the underlying network, including the hosted
environment and any related access. With up to 99.99 percent availability and
the enterprise-class security of AT&T Internet Data Centers, we can provide
the performance and capabilities needed for some of the most demanding
cloud-based solutions. Add another layer of security for data in transit by
using an AT&T VPN with your cloud solution.

Choose an integrated network solution with an option to add cloud services as a six-month trial.*